[Leica] Margaret Mead on photography

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

These women had never seen a photograph before.  They had no problems
recognizing themselves but it was a color photo and they have seen their
reflections in the water.

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/144219663

Tina


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:

>  ?Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the
> disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular
> photographer-analyst.?
> Margaret Mead
>
>
> The comments I made on Margaret Mead showing photographs to South Sea
> natives were supposedly published in a book by Gregory Bateson, Margaret
> Mead's husband and co-worker. The book "Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and
> Highland Bali: 1936 to 1939" was published by the University of Chicago
> Press and is available through Amazon.
>
>
> By his own account Bateson took 25,000 photographs in Bali and he and Mead
> took many more in the various islands of he South Pacific. Many were
> published in written works relatively unfamiliar to people other than
> experts in Balinese culture or on Bateson's and Mead's lives. I confess to
> not having read the original work. I heard the statement from Harvard
> anthropology professor Clyde Kluckhoen about 1949. Kluckhoen was Mead's
> assistant during the 40s. Bateson, rather than Mead was responsible for the
> wide use of photography in anthropology. The camera Mead used was a Kodak
> Brownie.
>
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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